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The Taking: Home - Who We Were Before the Ships
Thirty-five episodes, and we do not start with the ships. We start with home. Before the taking, there was a continent of two thousand languages: Mansa Musa crashing the price of gold in Cairo in 1324, Timbuktu's scholars paid for by the king, hundreds of thousands of books smuggled to safety in 2012, Benin's walls called the largest earthworks ever built by hand, Ife's bronze heads so lifelike Europeans said Greeks made them, the Oyo Empire's courts and taxes, the Asante Golden Stool that holds a nation's soul, Kongo's two million people choosing Christianity as strategy, Igbo towns with no…
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